Steelcase donates building to help STEM sprout across state

Grand Rapids-based office furniture maker Steelcase Inc. plans to donate its pyramid-shaped former research center near Grand Rapids to a foundation for use as an education hub for the study of so-called STEM subjects: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Officials said the education hub would cater to students in preschool through graduate school, The Grand Rapids Press reported.

The nonprofit Pyramid P20 STEM Education Hub is expected to set the agenda for the hub, which could get $5.5 million in state money. The seven-story, 664,000-square-foot building is in Kent County's Gaines Township.